By utilizing Clarus Services for testing and troubleshooting, an enterprise upgrading Cisco Unified Communications Manager can cut costs and maximize efficiency by focusing on migration issues as soon as they arise and hone in on problems solely introduced as a result of the upgrade, without being sidetracked by existing, pre-upgrade, problems.

"As a Cisco Developer Network Partner, Clarus Systems understands the value in properly assessing Unified Communication Manager performance and availability both before and after migration,” said Brendan Reidy, president and CEO of Clarus Systems. “With our flexible array of services and products, we are able to complement a partner or Cisco's Advanced Services teams and enable them to significantly reduce cost and risk involved with performing these complex migration projects on time. Our ClarusIPC Plus+ flagship product can also be utilized by systems integrators to ease the concerns of their clients over the daunting, but necessary, Communications Manager migrations to versions 6, 7 or now 8.x."

“Clarus Systems has proven its commitment to excellence while providing solutions in the UC marketplace. We are pleased to grant a 2010 Unified Communications Excellence Award to Clarus Migration Certification Service for Cisco Unified Communications Manager,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Congratulations to Clarus Systems on receiving this award and we look forward to future innovations.”

About Unified Communications magazine
Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.

TMCnet is read by nearly two million unique visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. Alexa.com ranks TMCnet traffic under 1,700 in the U.S. and India and under 4,000 in the Philippines, Canada and Ireland. TMCnet traffic ranks just over 4,000 in overall global traffic, according to Alexa.com.